I used to think directing was about control. Making Model Parent changed my mind about what it means to hold a vision – and when to let go of it.

What if learning wasn’t preparation for life, but a way of living it? Still Learning is about staying curious, being willing to change your mind, and making learning part of how you live.

We’re very good at showing what we know, while hiding the uncertainty, mistakes and changes of mind that show us actually learning. What happens when we make the workings-out visible again?

Sometimes what keeps us watching isn’t wondering what happens next, but looking more closely at what’s already there: a pause, a glance, the possibility that someone understands something before they’re ready to say it.

A reflection on making Wavelength, and on the idea that hope and grief are the bookends of love, with all the connection held somewhere in between.

We want the things we make to matter. Sometimes what lasts is a collection of fruit stickers on a cupboard, or a cheap silver frame from a Christmas cracker.

Sometimes the problem isn’t that we didn’t hear. It’s that we were too sure we did.

On place, memory, unfinished conversations, and on the temptation to explain things that may be more powerful when they remain unresolved.

You make something, send it out into the world and … nothing. Then you have to decide what that nothing means.

The possibility of being found depends on being findable.

We don’t always need to know where something is leading. Sometimes the most useful thing we can do is make the next thing possible. Take one step, learn from what happens, and let that change what comes next.